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Congressman Langevin Determined to Prevent a 'cyber 9/11'
In an interview, Rep. James R. Langevin (D-R.I.), the co-founder and co-chair of the House Cybersecurity Caucus, said he promises to do everything he can to prevent...
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Traffic Demands to Disrupt the Internet By 2010
The World Wide Web has reached a critical point, warns Nemertes Research in a new report, which claims that increased online traffic will likely result in slower...
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Smart Electric Vehicle Charger Won't Strain the Power Grid
Using a new technology developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, electric vehicle owners can plug in their cars and forget...
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Computers Bring Efficiency to the Infrastructure
Low-cost sensors, clever software, and computing firepower are key ingredients of an emerging computing trend called smart infrastructure — efficient and environmentally...
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U.S. Steps Up Effort on Digital Defenses
The United States is engaged in an international race to develop both cyberweapons and cyberdefenses. Thousands of daily attacks on federal and private computer...
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Google Tries Jump-Starting 3D Web Graphics
Google has released O3D, software designed to bring accelerated three-dimensional (3D) graphics to Web browsers. The program is a browser plug-in for Internet...
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.n. Launches Library of World's Knowledge
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has officially launched the World Digital Library, an Internet-based library that...
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Network Pioneer Cited For Revolutionary Advances in Web Search Techniques
ACM announced Tuesday (April 28) that Jon Kleinberg, a professor at Cornell University, is the recipient of the 2008 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing...
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Wireless Networks Can Now Be Truly Wireless
Researchers at Karlstad University in Sweden are collaborating with researchers at Deutsche Telekom Laboratories to test technology that promises to maintain the...
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Researchers Work on Web Site Credibility Tests
Scientists at the Know-Center, a technology research center in Austria, are developing software capable of quickly determining if a Web site is a credible source...
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Hackers: The China Syndrome
For years, the U.S. intelligence community worried that China's government was attacking our cyber-infrastructure. Now one man has discovered it's worse: It's hundreds...
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China Insists It Does Not Hack Into US Computers
China insisted on Thursday (April 23) that it was opposed to Internet crimes, following a U.S. media report that said Chinese hackers may have been behind a cyber...
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Telepresence Seen as Space Exploration Game-Changer
Some experts say that telepresence could have such a major impact on society that it changes everything, from how humans explore space to how they remotely communicate...
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Project Shows Researchers a Path to Escience Assets
The rapid evolution of computing, networking, and data capturing technologies, along with advances in data mining and analysis, are fundatmentally changing the...
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Workplace Wiki a Wakeup For Book-Smart niversity Grads
The University of Technology, Sydney, has developed the UTS Work-Ready Project, a new wiki intended to help better prepare university graduates for the workforce...
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Crypto Pioneers Differ on Cloud-Computing Risks
A group of pioneers in the security field, whose work in encryption is used to protect Internet data and communications every day, spoke recently about the state...
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Computer Spies Breach Fighter-Jet Project
Computer spies have broken into the Pentagon's $300 billion Joint Strike Fighter project — the Defense Department's costliest weapons program ever — according to...
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Microsoft Cooking p New Parallel Programming Language
Microsoft is developing a new language for parallel programming called Axum. Previously known as Maestro, Axum is an incubation project intended to help programmers...
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Cloud Computing: Changing the Way We Work
Cloud computing has the potential to create irreversible changes in how computers are used around the world, says David Carrera, director of the Cloud Computing...
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